A Realm Retold Chapter 1: Treasures Of The Main

Time for another bump!

This was a good watch, and really made me wish I was still playing XIV at this moment.

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Originally Posted by ZakarnRosewood

Thanks! With people from all over the world participating it was great that we could keep the "Brit" theme for Limsa Lominsa.

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Some were definitely Scottish.

Isn't Scottish still technically British?

From what I thought I knew, there is no singular British accent. There are several different accents from the area known as Great Britain which include the Scottish, Welsh, English etc. accents.

It's like saying a person with a Southern accent here in the states doesn't have an American accent. Technically they do, as do Canadians, valley girls, and the Kennedys. They all sound different but they're all still from the region known as America. Depending on the context of the word America.

Now you could certainly be more accurate when referring to each individual accent but I'm thinking it wouldn't entirely be wrong, depending on context, lumping all of those accents under "British".

*sidenote*: I noticed a Russian accent in there too.

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Originally Posted by Rhomagus

Isn't Scottish still technically British?

From what I thought I knew, there is no singular British accent. There are several different accents from the area known as Great Britain which include the Scottish, Welsh, English etc. accents.

It's like saying a person with a Southern accent here in the states doesn't have an American accent. Technically they do, as do Canadians, valley girls, and the Kennedys. They all sound different but they're all still from the region known as America. Depending on the context of the word America.

Now you could certainly be more accurate when referring to each individual accent but I'm thinking it wouldn't entirely be wrong, depending on context, lumping all of those accents under "British".

*sidenote*: I noticed a Russian accent in there too.

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British is acceptable, just less common to use it to refer to Scotland. After all, there is an independence referendum in the Autumn of 2014 to leave the UK. ^^
I only have to drive 30 mins in any direction to find an accent change.

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Originally Posted by Rhomagus

Isn't Scottish still technically British?

From what I thought I knew, there is no singular British accent. There are several different accents from the area known as Great Britain which include the Scottish, Welsh, English etc. accents.

It's like saying a person with a Southern accent here in the states doesn't have an American accent. Technically they do, as do Canadians, valley girls, and the Kennedys. They all sound different but they're all still from the region known as America. Depending on the context of the word America.

Now you could certainly be more accurate when referring to each individual accent but I'm thinking it wouldn't entirely be wrong, depending on context, lumping all of those accents under "British".

*sidenote*: I noticed a Russian accent in there too.

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Lol, technically you are right that they are quite similar but I dare you to go to Ireland and say "Irish, british, same thing" They are the same area and stemmed from the same dialect but they are different.

Yes, for Rostensthall/Sthalmann I was going for the Scottish accent more than the Cockney British accent I used for Emerick. Make the characters more distinct.

very nice!! :)

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Originally Posted by ZakarnRosewood

Lol, technically you are right that they are quite similar but I dare you to go to Ireland and say "Irish, british, same thing" They are the same area and stemmed from the same dialect but they are different.

Yes, for Rostensthall/Sthalmann I was going for the Scottish accent more than the Cockney British accent I used for Emerick. Make the characters more distinct.

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Actually I think they're different. It's just that they're form the same region. Ireland isn't a part of the UK, unlike Scotland.

I think someone from New Orleans, Louisiana sounds very different than someone from Seattle, Washington but they're both from the United States. On the other hand, I think people from Vancouver, British Columbia don't really sound that much different than people from Seattle, Washington besides a couple of vowel inflections but they're from different countries. All three are still from North America.

If an English person was talking to a Scottish person while in the UK they might refer to all of the above as Yankees while none of them would really identify with it. The one from Vancouver isn't even from the States.

The revolutionary and civil wars were both fought prior to even the founding of the Western territories let alone Washington's statehood in 1889. The one from Seattle would identify as a Mariner or a Seahawk before they would identify themselves as a Yankee :p.

The person from New Orleans might actually be offended depending.

I imagine it's more appropriate to stay as specific as possible depending on the company you're with or which hemisphere of the planet you're in, but I think on the whole, in this international community, people tend to be a bit more lenient.

All in all I liked all of the accents.

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Originally Posted by Rhomagus

Actually I think they're different. It's just that they're form the same region. Ireland isn't a part of the UK, unlike Scotland.

I think someone from New Orleans, Louisiana sounds very different than someone from Seattle, Washington but they're both from the United States. On the other hand, I think people from Vancouver, British Columbia don't really sound that much different than people from Seattle, Washington besides a couple of vowel inflections but they're from different countries. All three are still from North America.

If an English person was talking to a Scottish person while in the UK they might refer to all of the above as Yankees while none of them would really identify with it. The one from Vancouver isn't even from the States.

The revolutionary and civil wars were both fought prior to even the founding of the Western territories let alone Washington's statehood in 1889. The one from Seattle would identify as a Mariner or a Seahawk before they would identify themselves as a Yankee :p.

The person from New Orleans might actually be offended depending.

I imagine it's more appropriate to stay as specific as possible depending on the company you're with or which hemisphere of the planet you're in, but I think on the whole, in this international community, people tend to be a bit more lenient.

All in all I liked all of the accents.

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Lol, well I guess I will have to concede to your well worded post! Glad you liked what we did. I know I love playing with accents and Scottish was a hard one for me to pick up, I only hope I did it justice and don't offend the Scots.

Even though the Lodestone has been slow lately, I'm gunna bump this again.